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• Neural Networks Specialist: Machine Learning Models Can Fail And Here Is Why

  Is it true that neural networks can’t tell a gorilla from a tumor? What is prediction confidence and what do they have to do to find your car in the parking lot? And finally, why shouldn’t you trust a model’s conclusions completely? We addressed all of these questions to Natalia Khanzhina, a PhD student at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, who developed a new method that improves the precision of the neural network that detects brain tumors in MRI scans.  

  26.08.2021

• ITMO Researchers Developing Safer MRI Technology for Scanning During Pregnancy

  With the current MRI technologies, abdominal scans of pregnant women tend to be complicated by specific artefacts, darkened spots, in the images. ITMO University researchers have devised a way to lower the heterogeneity of the electromagnetic field in order to acquire higher-quality images.

  22.06.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: How and Why We Study Music’s Effects on the Brain

  People spend an average of 18 hours a week listening to music, according to a 2019 survey. It is undeniably a huge part of our lives and, naturally, inspires great curiosity in scientists. What makes you tap to the beat? Is it true that music can make you read faster? And what can possibly connect music and language? Today, we will attempt to answer these questions, dipping our toes into the ocean of research on music perception and cognition. 

  18.05.2021

• ITMO and Almazov National Medical Research Centre Researchers Study The Effect of Gaming On the Human Brain

  Pavel Tikhonov and Mikhail Zubkov, researchers from ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering are working on a project that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of people who spend 20 to 30 hours a week gaming. The scientists hypothesize similarities between the brains of ardent gamers and people addicted to chemical substances. 

  25.03.2021

• ITMO PhD Student Anna Mikhailovskaya Receives IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship

  Anna Mikhailovskaya, a PhD student at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering, received a graduate fellowship of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in the category Medical Application. It’s the first time the award was given to a Russian scientist. 

  01.03.2021

• ITMO Researchers Create MRI Antennas That Allow For Better MRI Scans

  Thanks to this invention, MRI scanners used in research can become more powerful, improving the quality of acquired images without risks for the patient’s health. ITMO scientists developed the device together with their colleagues at the M-Cube international project. The research is published in Nature Communications. 

  22.01.2021

• ITMO PhD Student Develops Unique MRI Device and Wins All-Russian Contest

  The contest of research projects by young scientists took place as part of the Science of the Future – Science of the Youth forum organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Evgeny Koreshin, a PhD student at ITMO’s Department of Physics and Engineering, took first place in the Medicine and Pharmacology category.

  24.12.2020

• Researchers Perform Simultaneous MR Microscopy of Two Samples With Ceramic Resonators

  An international research team that includes staff members of ITMO University has developed a ceramic dual‐resonator probe for MR microscopy that was used to produce simultaneous images of two samples; the quality of the images and the time it took them were the same as they would be for a single sample examined with a regular probe.

  17.11.2020

• Russian Scientists Suggest Device to Make Breast MRI More Effective

  The device is universal, highly sensitive, cheaper than its analogs from popular brands – and easy to use as it is wireless. A paper describing the device has been published in Nature Communications.   

  04.08.2020

• Researchers Improve Popular MRI Coil Using an Artificial Magnetic Shield

  In the future, this breakthrough will help boost the accuracy of MRI scans and enlarge the MRI chamber in order to improve the patient experience. Results of this research may also be put to use in research-purpose high-field MRI systems.

  14.07.2020